Privacy Policy

Akabekun · effective October 21, 2026

Akabekun is a nodding companion that rides on your dashboard and reacts to how smoothly you drive. It has no account, no ads and no tracking, and we never sell data. Almost everything stays on your phone. This page explains the few exceptions, on iPhone and on Android.

What stays on your phone

• Trips: scores, braking and other events, the motion graph and the GPS route of each trip.
• Motion sensors and location are read only while a trip is being recorded, including in the background while a trip is on. They are processed on the device and never uploaded.
• Settings and your chosen character.

You can delete all trips at any time in Settings → Delete all trips. Deleting the app removes everything stored on the device.

Backup on iPhone: iCloud

Two kinds of numbers are kept in your own iCloud key-value storage so they survive a new phone or a reinstall: your bond level with each character and your total smooth and driven kilometers. They contain no routes, places or times. They are stored by Apple in your iCloud account, and we cannot read them.

Backup on Android: Google

If backup is turned on in your Android settings, the app's data is included in your phone's Google backup so it survives a new phone or a reinstall: trips with their graphs and routes, your bond level with each character and your total kilometers. The recording in progress, the car you chose for autostart and temporary caches are left out. The backup is stored by Google in your Google account; on Android 9 and newer with a screen lock it is encrypted with that lock, and we cannot read it. You can turn backup off in Android settings.

Trip map

When you open a trip, the map under its route is downloaded like any web page: from Apple Maps on iPhone and from OpenFreeMap on Android. The map server sees your IP address and which map area is shown, as with any map app. The route itself and the trip's events are drawn on your phone and never sent.

Car autostart on Android (optional)

If you set it up, Android remembers the car's Bluetooth device you picked and tells the app when the phone connects to it or disconnects, so a ride can start and stop by itself. The choice stays on this phone and is not sent anywhere.

Hitchhike (optional)

Hitchhike lets you lend a bobblehead to a friend for a few days. Only if you use it, the app signs in to Google Firebase with a random anonymous ID (no name, email or phone number) and stores a record of that ride:

• the anonymous IDs of the owner and the friend who picked it up;
• the character, the chosen number of days, the ride status and dates;
• the hitchhiker's trip totals while it rides with your friend: kilometers, smooth kilometers, number of trips, how many sharp moves and potholes, and scores.

No routes, locations, trip times or sensor data are ever sent. A ride record can be opened only with its invite link, which carries a long random ID; lists of rides are visible only to their owner and the friend who picked the bobblehead up. It is stored by Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore, EU region) as our processor.

To delete it, open Settings → Delete Hitchhike data. Your rides are deleted, bobbleheads you lent come home, your anonymous ID is removed from friends' rides, and the anonymous sign-in is deleted.

Notifications

Notifications such as "Trip saved" are created on your phone. No notification service receives your data.

Children

Akabekun is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.

Contact

Yuriy Bruskov · yazeban@gmail.com